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From a Scientific Point of View

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:00

Natural science, which deals with universal generalizations, must never be confused with natural history, which deals with particular events.

Think of how legend might tell the story centuries hence if in our time, as in Walter Miller’s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, there had been a nuclear war: “From a scientific point of view, of course, we know there never was a Flame Deluge.”